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UK Parliament - Knowsley

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Office

Parliament

Honorific

Member of Parliament - Abbr: MP

Type

General Election

Filing Deadline

00, 0000 - 06:00pm Central

Polls Open

May 06, 2010 - 01:00am Central

Polls Close

May 06, 2010 - 04:00pm Central

Term Start

May 17, 2010 - 12:00pm

Term End

May 17, 2015 - 12:00pm

Contributor

Ralphie

Last Modified

RBH May 15, 2010 12:06pm

Data Sources

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Description

BBC Profile:
The ancestor seat of Knowsley North and Sefton East has been Labour since its creation in 1983. George Howarth has been the MP there since 1986 and in 2005 he gained a majority of 16,269.
The other ancestor seat, Knowsley South (Huyton at the time), was former Labour Prime Minister Harold Wilson's seat for 40 years.

At the election, following boundary changes the new seat of Knowsley combines wards from Knowsley North and Sefton East with others from Knowsley South.

Situated to the east of Liverpool and centred on the town of Knowsley, the seat also includes the towns of Kirkby and Huyton-with-Roby.

The constituency retains the characteristics of much of the rest of the Merseyside by having a very low ethnic minority population, comprising just over 1% of the population.

A large proportion of residents - 34% at the 2001 census - live in social housing, many of them on somewhat run-down council estates.

Knowsley Hall and Park is the ancestral home of the Earls of Derby and is now home to a safari park.

Rallings & Thrasher Notional:
Lab 30,112 (71.80%)
LD 5,779 (13.78%)
C 4,709 (11.23%)
Others 1,336 (3.19%)